Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 194
Shandong, Linyi Mansion:
"Zhuzi!" Vice President Sun slapped the table so hard that the other people present were too scared to speak.

"How dare you do that!" Vice President Sun was furious, and the Wenwan walnut in his hand was flying: "He really thinks that being a magistrate is a big deal? Isn't it because of his father's glory! My son..."

"Master Wu, draft a memorial, I want to see how much energy this kid can have!" Vice President Sun said to an old scholar next to him.

The master surnamed Wu persuaded him: "Dong Weng, think twice~"

Vice President Sun said in a bad tone: "What? Are you afraid of that kid?"

"Dong Weng, there is a history of patrolling in Chang'an, and there are inspectors here on the Supervisory Road, why should Dong Weng go to him to read a book? Besides, there are Zhengyin officials here on Shandong Road..." Master Wu hurriedly said: "Dong Weng, how about Let the two of them go to join the boy, so as not to be in trouble, but also to test the boy's backstage!"

"Hmm..." Vice President Sun is also a good person. Just now he was so angry that he didn't think clearly about the advantages and disadvantages. At this moment, he suddenly realized that he was just a second assistant officer with a seal on it. Check, the censor and a bunch of big shots need to be ventilated .If he can't breathe, he will go to the memorial. No matter whether he can participate in Xu Qing or not, he himself is hopeless in his official career anyway.

Deputy Director Sun praised: "Master Wu is indeed a think tank!"

Mr. Wu couldn't help being proud when he saw Deputy Manager Sun accepting advice, and continued: "Dong Weng, don't mention this letter, just say that the kid connived at his subordinates to drive up the price of grain, and insisted that he took advantage of the fire to rob and fish in troubled waters!"

Deputy Manager Sun put away Xu Qing's letter and said: "It makes sense, a letter is so vulgar, it would hurt face if it is taken out!"

Half a day later, Vice President Sun came back with a livid face.I went to Xun Yushi and said that Xu Qing took advantage of the danger in Shandong to drive up prices to make money, and Xun Yushi almost slapped him.He told Deputy Manager Sun that Xu Qing is a county uncle with thousands of acres of fertile land and countless properties. He can earn more money in one day than transporting grain, so why should he be in such trouble?

Vice President Sun said, who would think that money is too little, and earning a little more is a little bit.

Xun Yushi said, if you want to join him, go by yourself if you have the ability, but I won't go anyway.

Deputy Director Sun ran to the supervisory road with a firm head and reported that the governor of Cangzhou connived with Cangzhou officials, smuggled grain, and sold it in the disaster area at a high price.

The inspector asked: "Where was the prisoner captured?"

"Shandong, people's filth can be harvested at the same time."

"Then, is the prisoner delivering food or selling food in Shandong?"

"Uh, he sent grain, but he also sold it to grain merchants in Shandong."

"In other words, it's not him who raised the price, but Shandong grain merchants?"

"No, no, the purchase price is high, so Shandong grain merchants sell it at a high price."

"Hmph, how did I hear that Shandong grain merchants raised their prices?"

"This... But officials. Doing business is always a shame."

"Deputy Manager Sun doesn't have a shop at home?"

"Uh……"

From then on, no matter what Vice President Sun said, the inspector would always use various reasons to evade it. Anyway, it was just one sentence, Xu Qing was innocent and Liu Su was at fault, but he could not be convicted.

Who in the officialdom is not shrewd?

Vice-President Sun had a bad nose. On the way home, he was summoned by the Shandong Daozheng Seal Officer. After a round of ideological education, criticism and accusations were imposed on Vice-President Sun.

You will die if you provoke Xu Qing!A few days ago, he made a huge upheaval in Cangzhou, his aristocratic family was wiped out, and several high-ranking censors from the imperial court joined him, but they were only fined a three-month salary.And those censors, those who were exiled, those who were demoted, how much meat can your surname Sun have?

Join Xu Qing, what a joke!I'm telling you Sun, don't date me if you're tired of working on your own.Hurry up, return the food of Inspector Xu Da, and let him go.He must report his flaws, you'd better find a bullshit reason for him to apologize!
Deputy Manager Sun nodded and said yes, only one sentence remained blank in his mind-this Xu Qing, does he really have such a big background?

Liu Su and others came out safe and sound, and each of them got a letter of silver.After pulling the grain, as soon as they left Shandong, another grain merchant came and ate all the grain with eight cents a bucket.Of course, all of this was done by Vice President Sun.

When the matter reached Xu Qing's ears, he was also surprised, young master, am I really that good?

Xiaoyue explained to him that only the Overlord can break the boat, and others cannot.

Almost ten days had passed since Xu Qing wrote the letter to Liu Su's return.The roads at each point have been repaired for about five or six miles, seven or eight miles more, and preparations have already begun for the points that are relatively close to each other.

Due to the abundant sunshine these days, the land in the field has been dried out, and the rice is golden, waiting for the farmers to harvest.Soon, crops of mature rice and wheat were beaten into millet grains and collected into the barn.

Due to Xu Qing's previous tax cuts and the fact that Cangzhou is the place to receive disaster victims, the grain tax is extremely low, a symbolic tax of one in twenty.The streets, alleys, cities and countryside are full of joy brought by the harvest.The common people started to build the Xugong Temple spontaneously again. It is rumored that the Xugong Temple was built in Cangzhou, so that it was not affected by the catastrophe.

Xu Qing likes to watch people coming and going from the city tower. Some people are cheering, some people are in a hurry, tall and short, fat and thin, men, women, old and young, all live under his watchful eyes.He drank a pot of red dates and wolfberry tea and ate a few pieces of sweet-scented osmanthus cake by himself. Occasionally, the dog would come and tell him a strange thing.For example, whose widow intentionally left a gap in the bath, whose old sow gave birth to more than 20 piglets, whose chicken was stolen, the dog was poisoned, and the barn was opened again.

"Huh? Was it opened again?"

"Yes, there are always barns in the west city that are patronized by thieves, and the county government still can't catch anyone."

"Xicheng..." Xu Qing remembered that the people living in Xicheng were ordinary people, their houses were not secure and the walls were not high, so they were easy to suffer.The point is, there are quite a few shacks outside the west city that live in those rascals who refuse to work.

Those people are only willing to eat for free, and are unwilling to do more work to earn rations.Xu Qing, I'm not being polite, I only give them a ration of two or two meters per day.What's the situation with two or two meters?That is, a little girl can finish eating without losing weight.

Thieves were rampant, and Xu Qing thought of those people almost immediately.

"Hey, this is the copper coin for today's news, come back tomorrow?" Xu Qing smiled and gave the money to Gouzi.Gouzi hopped away, but Xu Qing's expression became serious.

Five hundred soldiers were ordered, and they all went to the west city, surrounded the hundreds of lazy men, counted them, and found that there were about 50 less.After inquiring, the missing people all went out to "work".

Hmph, Xu Qing divided the soldiers into two parts, one part controlled the idlers in the shack and confiscated their food, and the other part guarded around, waiting for those who went out to work to come back.

In the evening, the lazy people didn't eat, and it was cold, so they couldn't help but look resentful.Seeing this, Xu Qing pointed to the grain found and asked, "The government didn't send you so much grain. Where did you get it from?"

No one answered, and the resentment of the victims decreased slightly, and their fear increased.Xu Qing smiled, and suddenly a voice came, it was someone singing:
"Come back with long clips, eat without fish, come back with long clips, go out without cars, eat and eat without fish, go out and go without cars, drink without drunkenness, sleep without beauties. Wife!"

Xu Qing's eyes widened. This song was sung by an allusion to Lord Mengchang in ancient times. A wise man named Feng Xuan sang it like this.Could it be possible to meet a talent here!Xu Qing's love for talent arose in his heart, and he found that person. At first glance, he turned out to be a poor scholar.

People should not be judged by their appearance, Xu Qing bowed to him, and asked: "Since your Excellency is a man of learning, why do you have to run around here?"

"Hmph, didn't Shandong suffer from a windstorm?" The scholar said a lot: "It's all because of those foolish people in Shandong who don't know how to worship gods. They suffered disasters, and I was also in trouble. I didn't say it, if I didn't come here Such a storm, then I can..."

"Didn't the government make relief with work? It's better for you to go there than here!" Xu Qing asked.

The poor scholar said again: "Bah, bah, I will go to work with the mud legs? The government may not pay the wages on time, and the wages given may not be good!"

"Um, how do you know if you don't try?"

"The world is as black as crows. If you don't try it, you will know... It's all your Cangzhou government's fault, and you're doing shit for work. Isn't it over?"

"These few grains distributed every day are not enough to eat, poor and miserable!"

"This, this is for nothing, how much more do you want?"

"Bah, so poor!" The scholar spat at Xu Qing.

Xu Qing was only wearing ordinary clothes at this time, and it was dark, so he was treated as a small official by the poor scholar.The soldiers next to him were furious, and the poor scholar continued to scold: "Damn, what are you staring at, what a poor place! Raising so many useless soldiers, you might as well give me the rice!"

Xu Qing understood in his heart that today he met a strange person called a troll.Don't work with your hips on your hips, endure hardships and blame others, whatever you do, as long as it prevents him from making a fortune, you will oppose it at all, even if it makes him benefit, he will still despise it.

"Poor, if I knew I would not have come to Cangzhou!"

"What do you look at, do you dare to kill me? Can you take responsibility for the death of one of the victims? I just laughed. We don't have enough food, so you just let us go!"

"Fuck, we took something from someone else, didn't you force it?"

Xu Qing raised his hand, the soldiers understood immediately and took the scholar down, and then he snorted: "One rascal, steal twenty boards according to the law, tattooed and distributed to Wuzhou!"

"Oh, how dare you..." The scholar wanted to continue scolding, but unexpectedly, the soldier slapped him back and knocked out his teeth.

To deal with trolls, there is only sticks!
If the scholar is really ambitious and doesn't want to build roads with the peasants, why should he hang out with these rascals?

(End of this chapter)